Op-Ed Contributors
Moving toward multipolar world
By Yu Zhongwen (China Daily)
Updated: 2010-08-12 07:52
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It is true that global power has experienced some changes in recent years thanks to economic globalization and multipolarization.
More and more countries and regions, or international bodies, such as the European Union, BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China), and the Group of 20, have played greater political or economic roles on the world stage after the end of the Cold War, during which the world was dominated by two superpowers - the United States and the Soviet Union.
Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said recently that the world is witnessing a trend where various international forces are moving toward a relatively balanced state, an inevitable outcome of multipolarization, economic globalization, and rapid scientific and technological revolution.
The path to a multipolar world not only involves the rapid development of newly emerging major developing countries, but also the strengthening of many developing countries as regional powers, Yang said.
This has occurred not only in Asia, but also in Africa and Latin America, Yang added.
In fact, multipolarization has become the most significant trend of the modern world. Developing countries as a whole, not just those in the East, have been gradually rising on the world stage and should have more say in international affairs.
It's better to say that Western domination of the world is being diluted by a multipolar world, in which developing countries should have equal rights to development.
Meanwhile, an outstanding problem at present is that the reasonable rights and legitimate demands of developing countries have not received due respect and attention.
It's much better for some Western theorists to recognize the trend of multipolarity and to help developing countries win equal say and rights to development, instead of sounding a false alarm on the rise of certain major developing countries.
The author is a writer with the Xinhua News Agency.
(China Daily 08/12/2010 page8)